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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 551–572.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Alissa Valles © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 not for sale HAND WORK Alissa Valles Surgery: n [M surgerie, fr. MF cirurgie, fr. L chirurgia, fr. Gk cheirourgia, fr. cheirourgos, surgeon, fr. cheir hand + ergon work] Diagnosis Probed & pricked, then redacted...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 138–139.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Perry Link Heilmann Sebastian and Perry Elizabeth J. , eds., Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2011 ), 320 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 149–160.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Armin Tolentino Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 THEATER AND POETRY FROM “THE HARD HAND OF CATACLYSM” Armin Tolentino Gambler’s Ruin, Blue Stag Casino Eventual extinction of the genus is assured...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 207–208.
Published: 01 May 2024
... diffuse it to a larger audience in a way that makes old books seem companionable. Rather than Hidden Hands , the book might well have been called Comites latentes : hidden friends. Manuscripts permit one to come into contact with the past, or at least to harbor the illusion that one can. Wellesley's...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 537–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 January 2023
... on doubly held commitments to radical empirical curiosity about, on the one hand, events of science and culture, and, on the other hand, promises of conceptual speculation for collective learning. This work is highly important for the novel perplexities of the Anthropocene, but not quite in the way...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 221–230.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., the essay suggests that a wider array of choices exists for legal interpretation than the usual alternative between originalism or literalism, on the one hand, and intuitionism, on the other hand. Contributions to the symposium (titled “Between Text and Performance”) emphasize what Roger Moseley calls...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 312–324.
Published: 01 April 2012
... spiritual experiences that neither fit easily into the settled doctrines of traditions nor contest those doctrines by offering new, liberal, or relativizing alternatives. Rather, productive spaces open up wherein spiritual insight and uncertainty go hand in hand, created and accentuated by study, a stubborn...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 19–43.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... This interpretation arises from a recognition of the complexity of a story that on the one hand celebrates the triumphs of a heroic slave over his masters, but on the other hand suggests that such resistance can be contained if masters treat their slaves humanely. Numerous parallels are drawn with contemporaneous...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 230–250.
Published: 01 April 2020
... quite different intellectual contexts: anthropology and literary studies. The proliferation of Latour figurations is shown to be a consequence of interactions between, on the one hand, existing disciplinary constellations of ideas, concerns, and practices, and, on the other hand, his own often ambiguous...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 1–8.
Published: 01 April 2019
... with dirty hands. This job is not one for contextualists in white gloves. . . . There is no clean methodology for reconciling worldviews at odds. . . . By this time . . . our hands are filthy, and our shoes unwearable indoors.” Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 324–341.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Jennifer T. Roberts Abstract Recoiling from the power that Athenian democracy placed in the hands of the poor, the founding fathers of the United States took Athens as primarily an anti-model, whereas nineteenth-century defenders of slavery found Athens a very congenial model indeed, seeming...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 367–382.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., making this first conception unattainable. On the other hand, a second conception or standard—one of antipolitics as in opposition to favoritism—is both realistic and desirable to expect of those who occupy positions of administrative power. It holds that administrators should avoid making decisions...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 77–81.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of concern is that, in being utterly uninterested in defining absolute scales for comparison and in focusing only on the generative potential of comparing, she relativizes the very act of comparing. What matters to her is how experimental devices simultaneously sensitize their users to the phenomena at hand...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 223–232.
Published: 01 April 2010
... he have evaded martyrdom at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell? One discussant argues that More could not have done so without contemptibly abandoning his principles and surrendering fully to despotism. The other discussant disagrees, suggesting that More had to abandon some of his...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 29–33.
Published: 01 January 2008
...-ended because the present is, and meanwhile, the meaning of history is in our hands to change. Since we have that power, Eagleton suggests that we recycle figures of the past as characters in a comedy rather than tragedy. Still, it is never possible to say which figures of the past and which works...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 253–269.
Published: 01 April 2015
... by the defeated Erinyes, and the compensation they are offered. On the other hand, the tragedy clearly shows how difficult it is for a fair legal judgment to be made without a view to larger issues of national expedience, security, and inherent power structures, especially that of patriarchy. © 2015 by Edith...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 5–7.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Colin Richmond This guest column consists of a tongue-in-cheek counterfactual history of England from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Its highlight is the fifty-year reign of the saintly King Richard III, who dies a martyr in New York at the hands of the Iroquois in 1536 and is promptly...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 501–524.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of, on the one hand, the investments of the progressive Russian intelligentsia in atonement for anti-Semitic policies and social violence, and, on the other, Jewish assimilation to Russian cultural life led to an identification of Jews with revolutionary and anti-tsarist culture. Among the figures treated here...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 88–124.
Published: 01 January 2020
... interest in the New Testament and of Christian attention to rabbinic literature. This article explores the complex and vexing questions that the careers of these two men raise about the elusive distinctions between Judaism and Christianity, on the one hand, and, on the other, between the Jewish religion...